so plants use a lot of nitrogen but they can't use it unless there's molybdenum that's when they've
used the least of to just turn out an enzyme because the enzyme that does those chemical
reactions makes the nitrogen available i don't know what specific additive would be good with
molybdenum but if i'm going with trace elements a lot of times i'll do it as kelp extracts
humic acid when i'm looking at water analysis i don't want to see more than 70 parts per million
of chloride that's kind of my my limit and no more than 50 parts per million of sodium
isn't there like four different types of malignant the two main are the sodium
and the ammonium ammonium and i'm a big proponent if they're going to put it in there i'd rather
have the ammonium not the sodium one do you agree with that how much does malignant affect nitrogen
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2586 photos 274 videos 21 files 1 106 shared links and much much more in parts of australia
in western australia there's molybdenum deficiency in the soil and they used to be
a wheat importing nation they couldn't even grow enough wheat for their own population
until they learned about molybdenum and its effect in nitrogen so they added a very small amount of
molybdenum to their fertilizer in their soil they went from a wheat importing nation to a wheat
exporting nation so plants use a lot of nitrogen but they can't use it unless there's molybdenum
that's when they use the least of to just turn on an enzyme because the enzyme that does those
chemical reactions makes the nitrogen available uh what would you uh recommend for either an organic
source or because some people have been it's been popping up a lot and just as well as uh like i've
been in my garden lately i've been coming across chlorine deficiency because i'm using
gpu water sometimes which is pretty much comes out uh with this just comes out like either 6.0 that's
that's pretty much what it evens out to after i'm after i'm pulling it out of the bucket or whatever
i've noticed that if i'm not having anything in there like what we've found has it recently the
lingvinite i haven't used that at all but that has traces of chlorine in it but i'm noticing that i'm
actually coming across chlorine deficiencies a lot so i've been having to put in tap water
within that water at first and then having to go from there or at some point having to put in tap
water to get at least a little bit of chlorine but i feel a little bit weird doing that they're
they're pretty tolerant to chlorine that we need chlor they need chlorine essential element we
never add it typically to hydro because it's there already when you're adding of potassium fertilizer
it's it has chlorine in it you know it's on the in the water it's everywhere chloride in the form
of chloride but anyway molybdenum and what we do in hydroponics is we add it as either sodium
molybdate or as ammonium molybdate and then it's valuable and it's available to the plant i don't
know what specific additive would be good with molybdenum but if i'm going with trace elements
a lot of times i'll do it as kelp extracts humic acid because i'm adding a lot of beneficial
you know trace elements there uh that are a little bit more condensed so but i don't i'd have to
look into it to see what organic source is higher highest molybdenum i'm not sure but again remember
there's a very narrow window between deficient and toxic yeah into these trace elements so you really
want to err on the side of too little and too much well i've been i've been trying to nail it down
for a while and i've been seeing it it's nailed it down to a chlorine deficiency for me and uh
the second that i started adding it started going away but i i think it was just because of the
dehu water i'm just trying to recycle that water and uh make sure that the bin is clean and all
that but yeah nailed it down to that eventually it started going away because it was yellowing
i'll tell you guys a secret yes back when i was developing the mother plant nutrient this is a
little you know nobody even knew i did this that's a company i would i would always add okay
with that when i had some of my organics to it i would have just a very small amount of himalayan
sea salt nobody knows i didn't i don't even think anybody saw me do that because i mixed that up in
the in my lab you know with some different things i may add some more different amino acids or some
copper amino acid chelate you know i kind of do play around with that little formula there and
that would be i take that up and add it to my 3500 gallon or liter concentrate at the very end you
might my it's my secret sauce you know juice it had just a little bit of chlori chloride in there
not a much yeah that's all that's all it seems it needs yeah that just seems like i needed to put
a little bit of tap water and that's all it did just yeah just a little bit it's the chloride that
form the plant uses the chlorine in your water is is a is a gas and it will evaporate very quickly
uh the chloramines though last a little bit longer but that's uh it's the chloride form that plants
use and they when i'm looking at water analysis i don't want to see more than 70 parts per million
of chloride that's kind of my my limit and no more than 50 parts per million of sodium if it's
above 50 parts per million sodium the plants aren't going to reach their genetic potential
that was that was actually just it's it's really interesting because i know we're talking about
bricks but yet we see keep going we keep talking about micronutrients and nutrients and dive into
that subject but it's essential like they're they're your inputs is what will create your
bricks right it's like and it goes into what we're talking about the the malignant uh there's
isn't there like four different types of malignant that they try to that i've seen push in different
fertilizer bottles the two main are the sodium and the alu aluminum yes ammonium ammonium um and
i'm a big proponent if they're going to put it in there i'd rather have the ammonium not the sodium
one do you agree with that no i thought that you know when i first at the first fertilizer company
i worked at where they were using uh the sodium elliptic so why don't you use ammonium molybdate
because you know the ammonium they can use that they really don't need the sodium
because their answer was we're using such a small amount a fraction of a part per million that that
very very small amount of ammonia we're adding is insignificant or of the sodium because it's
not hurt it's not gonna it's not gonna affect the plant one way or another now if you get up
to higher levels of sodium but you're not adding you know sodium chloride to it you know it's just
so that they just i don't know if it was price or what but that was just the source
they used i suggested when we switched they said it's not it's not important i was i
thought exactly the same thing you did though i brought that that up and the first time i saw it
why are you adding sodium like it sounds like per million yeah is that gonna hurt anything no
i appreciate that thank you it's uh i'm always diving into these i'm i'm a little nitpicker
around these things and and um i don't know i'm not a scientist i have no idea but i i
have an opinion paintings like [ __ ] i always say that and and i stay away from the sodium
or opinions like [ __ ] everyone has one that's what i always say and so uh but i appreciate you
letting me know because should i back off on that opinion a little bit you know should i
should i stay you know stan stay you know stand firm on it and so yeah i appreciate that
because i noticed in the mpk there's you have two lines over there i'm guessing you developed
organic do you develop both lines they they have an mpk or did um did you develop one and then
they incorporated a second one after you left yeah you know by the way just full disclosure
i don't work for mpk anymore i did for a few years out there and it was a good experience
and i love those guys so no problems with the company it's a great company i just want to
give back to michigan and family but anyway um i just the only one i developed from scratch was the
was their calyx line which was the grow formula in bloom formula and because it was hydroponics the
other ones that they have they they have a growing bloom that's the powder where they added some of
the organics to that was formulated by someone else a different company got it i appreciate it
yeah no i've done well as you know i've done a lot of training with the individual components
that are in their blend um but um like we are doing here but i didn't formulate those got it
phosphorus energy element plant takes it in and it's incorporated into a molecule called adenosine
triphosphate the energy is stored in the phosphate bonds
and then as the phosphate bonds are cleaved it releases energy to do chemical reactions